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Hans Speier Papers
Biographical Sketch

During his lifetime Hans Speier was distinguished by two very distinct careers.
Speier was a lecturer in political sociology and economics in Germany (1931-1933)
before emigrating to the U.S. to accept a position as lecturer and professor
of political sociology on the newly formed Graduate Faculty of the New School
for Social Research in New York (1933-1942, 1947-1948), lecturing summers at
the University of Illinois (1941) and the University of Michigan (1941). Speier
interrupted his university career for one in government service and research,
but returned to teaching in 1969 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(1969-1973), where he held the title of Robert M. MacIver Professor of Sociology
and Government.

Between 1942 and 1948, Speier served in the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence
Service of the Federal Communications Commission (later Chief of the Central
European Section), advisor on propaganda policy to the Director of the Overseas
Branch, Office of War Information, and eventually became Associate Chief of
the State Department's Occupied Areas Division. In 1948, Speier joined the staff
of The Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, first serving as the Organizer
and Head of the Social Science Division from 1948 to 1960, later becoming a
member of the Rand Research Council from 1960-1968.

Speier's research interests focus on the political implications of military
affairs and the influence of military power on the behavior of governments in
the conduct of his foreign policies. He authored or co-edited numerous books
and articles on these subjects, including German Radio Propaganda (with
Ernst Kris, 1944), Social Order and the Risks of War (1952), West
German Leadership and Foreign Policy (with W. Davison, 1957), German
Rearmament and Atomic War (1957), Divided Berlin: The Anatomy of Soviet
Political Blackmail (1961), Die Angestellten vor dem Nationalsozialismus
(1977; English title: German White Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler),
and Propaganda and Communication in World History (co-edited with Harold
Lasswell and Daniel Lerner, 3 vols., 1979-1980). He also published his translation
of Grimmelshausen's Courage, the Adventuress and the False Messiah
(1964), as well his autobiographical account, From the Ashes of Disgrace:
A Journal from Germany 1945-1955 (1981).

Speier was married twice, first in 1929 to Lisa (Luise) Griesbach, with whom
he had two children, Sybil D. and Steven W. Lisa Speier died in 1965 and Speier
married his second wife Margit in February 1967. Hans Speier, the last surviving
member of the famed Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research,
died at the age of 85 on February 17, 1990 while vacationing in Sarasota, Florida.

Lecturer in Political Sociology at the College for Politics (Hochschule fÃ¼r Politik), Berlin and Assistant in the Department of Economics, University of Berlin.
Editor of the Archiv fÃ¼r Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik.

1933

September, emigrated to the U.S.

1933-1942

Professor of Sociology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York.

1936

(Summer) Visiting Professor, University of Illinois.
Publication of The Salaried Employee in German Society in mimeographed form
by Columbia University as WPA project (a work begun by Speier in 1932 and
eventually published in its entirety over 40 years later as
Die Angestellten vor dem Nationalsozialismus).

1939

Co-edited and co-authored War in Our Time with Alfred Kahler

1940

April 20, became naturalized U.S. citizen.

1941

(Summer) Visiting Professor, University of Michigan.

1941-1942

Co-Director of Research Project on Totalitarian Communication,
which was financed for two years by the Rockefeller Foundation for training of
Rockefeller Research Fellows and study of classified British materials
(monitored German broadcasts and British foreign broadcast analyses).

1942-1944

Section Chief and later Acting Chief of Foreign Broadcast Intelligence
Service in the Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.

1944

Co-authored with Ernst Kris German Radio Propaganda

1944-1945

Propaganda Policy Adviser to the Chief of the Overseas Branch of the
Office of War Information, Washington, D.C.

1945

October 13 - December 2, trip to Germany for Office of War Information.

January 1946-September 1947

Associate Chief (Acting Chief) of Division for Occupied Areas (ADO) in
the Department of State.

1946

February 9 - March 20, trip to Germany for Department of State.

1947

March - April, trip to Germany for Department of State.

1947-1948

Professor of Sociology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York.

1948

March - April, trip to Germany for Department of State.

1948-1960

Organizer and Head, Social Science Division, The Rand Corporation.

1947-1951

Consultant, Department of State

1950

October 31 - December 2, trip to Germany as Consultant for the Department of State.

1951

Consultant, Ford Foundation.

1952

April - June, trip to Germany for Rand to study conditions.
Publication of Social Order and The Risks of War (re-issued by M.I.T. Press in 1969).

1954

March - June, trip to Germany for Rand to study conditions.

1955

September - November, trip to Germany for Rand to study conditions.

1956-1957

On leave from Rand; Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.

1957

Publication of German Rearmament and Atomic War;
co-editor with W. P. Davison of West German Leadership and Foreign Policy.

1958-1962

Consultant, USAF Scientific Advisory Board

1960-1968

Member of the Rand Research Council; Chairman from 1961-1962.

1961

Publication of Divided Berlin: The Anatomy of Soviet Political Blackmail.

1964

On leave from Rand; Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
Publication of his translation of Grimmelshausen's
Courage, the Adventuress and the False Messiah.

1965

December 21, Death of first wife, Lisa.

1967

February 18, married second wife, Margit Leipnik.

1969-1973

Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1969

Publication of Force and Folly: Essays on Foreign Affairs and the History of Ideas.

Hans Speier Papers
Scope and Content Note

The Hans Speier Papers, 1922-1989, primarily focus on Speier's career in the
United States after his emigration to the United States in 1933. A small number
of documents for both Speier and his wife, Lisa Griesbach Speier, date from
the pre-U.S. period, 1922-1933. Early materials are in German, with post-1933
materials predominately in English.

The collection is divided into ten series: 1) Biographical materials, including
family documents and correspondence, 1922-1984; 2) Autobiographical writings,
1945-1989; 3) Correspondence files, 1911-1988; 4) Manuscripts and typescripts, ca. 1920-1987;
5) The RAND Corporation materials, 1948-1988; Miscellaneous typescripts by other
authors, 1941-1982; 6) Miscellaneous typescripts by other authors, 1941-1982;
7) Nazi propaganda, 1941-1944; Anti-Nazi
propaganda, 1943-1944; Allied Forces Intelligence Reports and memoranda, 1940-1948;
8) Notes and materials on various topics; and 9) Note cards;and 10) Political pamphlets, 1934-1970. Series 4 is further
divided into two sub-series: typescripts of books written or edited by Speier,
and typescripts of shorter writings, including poetry, short stories and essayistic
writings. Series 5 is also divided into two sub-series: Hans Speier's log notes
(diary entries) and the essayistic writings.

The correspondence files contain correspondence with colleagues and leading
scholars of the day, including Max Ascoli, Reinhard Bendix, Arvid Brodersen,
Lewis A. Coser, Alexander George, Herbert Goldhamer, Joseph Goldsen, Fred C.
Iklé, Alvin Johnson, Paul Kecskemeti, Henry J. Kellermann, Ernst Kris,
Nathan Leites, M. Rainer Lepsius, Hans Staudinger and Leo Strauss. Also represented
in the collection is a lengthy correspondence with co-editors of the three-volume
work Propaganda and Communication in World History Harold Lasswell
and Daniel Lerner, as well as correspondence with individual contributors to
the volumes.

Two additional series should be noted: The RAND Corporation materials (Series
5) and the Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi propaganda and intelligence materials
(Series 7). The RAND Corporation materials span four decades and document Speier's
important career as organizer and Head of the Social Science Division of the
RAND Corporation from 1948-1960 and a member of the RAND Research Council from
1960-1968. During those years he wrote and directed numerous studies for RAND
and the texts of many of the position papers, memoranda, lecture texts and essays
are present in the collection. Included in the Nazi and anti-Nazi propaganda
materials is a collection of rare leaflets prepared by the Psychological Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army and disseminated
to enemy troops in Italy in 1943-1944.

In addition to the numerous texts written by Speier during his years at The
RAND Corporation, the collection also contains numerous texts of essays, as
well as typescript and manuscript versions of books, in particular the monograph
Die Angestellten vor dem Nationalsozialismus (1977) and his autobiographical
work From the Ashes of Disgrace: A Journal from Germany, 1945-1955.

Hans Speier Papers
Series Description

The materials in this series pertain primarily to Hans Speier, and his first
wife Lisa (Luise) Griesbach Speier and include school and university certificates
for both from Germany. Also included in the series is correspondence with family
members, including the Speier children, Sybil and Steven, as well as correspondence
pertaining to legal and financial matters, travel and employment (including
the New School for Social Research, Department of State, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst).

This series contains the autobiographical writings of Hans Speier and also
includes transcripts of two interviews. Of particular interest are the typescripts
of his published autobiography, From the Ashes of Disgrace: A Journal from Germany
1945-1955. The early versions of many of the typescript sections were taken
from Speier's log notes for his trips to Germany for the Rand Corporation in
the 1950s. (The complete log notes are located in Series 5: The Rand Corporation
materials.)

The correspondence files are arranged in four series, general correspondence
with individuals A-Z; correspondence with publishers, newspaper editors, etc.;
correspondence relating to the publication of the three volume series Communication
and Propaganda in World History, and correspondence relating to the 1975
Thyssen Workshop "Probleme der Regierbarkeit".

This series is divided into two sub-series: 1) typescripts of books written
or edited by Speier; and 2) typescripts and manuscripts of shorter writings,
including early stories and poems, and essayistic writings.

Typescripts and notes for Speier's work Die Angestellten vor dem Nationalsozialismus
(English: The German White Collar Workers and Hitler) make up the
largest part of this sub-series. Also included in this section are reviews
of many of Speier's publications.

This series is arranged into three sections: the first contains Speier's
early writings, including poetry, aphorisms and short stories from the 1920s
and 1930s. The largest section is made up of Speier's essayistic writings
and contains a number of pieces written during the 1940s when Speier was employed
by the Office of War Information and the Department of State. The last section
contains Speier's book reviews.

This series consists of log notes generated by Speier while on trips for The
RAND Corporation of Santa Monica, California, as well as essays, position papers
and memoranda generated by Speier (and others) while in the employ of The RAND
Corporation.

This series contains Speier's log (diary) notes from trips to Germany taken
for The RAND Corporation, the people he met and interviewed, places visited,
etc. Sections of the log notes served as a basis for his autobiography From
the Ashes of Disgrace: A Journal from Germany 1945-1955.

Although this series contains primarily memoranda and essays generated for
The RAND Corporation by Hans Speier or under his direction, general materials
and correspondence pertaining to RAND, as well as some essays by others are
also included in this series.

This series contains both Nazi propaganda, disseminated by the Reichspropagandaamt
in Berlin, as well as anti-Nazi propaganda, disseminated by the Psychological
Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army, 1943-1944. The Anti-Nazi propaganda collection
consists of ca. 220 individual leaflets and one scrapbook containing leaflets,
which were disseminated by shell-fire and by artillery observation planes over
enemy troops on the Fifth Army front during the Italian campaign. Also contained
in this series are intelligence reports and memoranda from the Allied Forces
Psychological Warfare Section and the Information Control Division, as well
as War Office memoranda.

Folders 42-48: Undated essayistic writings presumably authored by Speier, texts
of speeches:
42. "Notes on German nationalism."
43. "Morale policy in Total War."
44. Essay on population (ca. 1927-1928).
45. "How Not to be Blackmailed in the Nuclear Age. The Impact of Technology
on Dipolomacy."
46. "The Sociology of Freedom. A Study in Alfred Webers Sociology of Universal
History."
47. Transcript of H. Speier Speech in San Francisco."
48. Speech text on political language.